The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-14

badly wrecked property. Twelve months ago q
fairer and more promising piece OF railroad prop
erty could not be found in the country.
Since the LIST of September the Bee-line has
brought west for the Terre Haute steel nail
works eighty-six carloads of Steel The ship
ments were made from New York.
c. ~ Lewis formerly with the Bee-line pay
master department, who recently retired. has
located permanently in Fort Scott, Kan, and is
engaged in the hardware business
H. r. Dering assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines. who has been
prospecting for business In the Northwest Tor
couple of weeks is expected home to-day.
In the month of August average of sixty
cars per day was loaded and unloaded at the city
freight depot of the c.. l.. St. L. q c. road.
The work was accomplished with fourteen plat
form men.
Commissioners Fink is expected homo from
Europe early in November, and strong effort
will be made by the trunk-line officials to in
Guce him to continue as chairman OF the Irunk-
line Association.
Large colonies of people from West Tennessee
and North Carolina are passing through here
for Washington Territory each week. They
locate lands in close proximity to the North
ern Pacific road.
c. c. Curtis. for some years past a passenger
conductor the Vandalia, but recently pro-
NOTED to the position of Southwestern passenger
agent of the same road, with headquarters at
Dallas, Tex, left for his new field last evening.
Railway managers are looking with compla-
cent interest the comparatively few passes
which now turned In. On the Ienneylvanla
lines the aboshment of the pass system is said
to have cut down the favors 30 per cent.
Harry Crawford has just returned from New
York, and was not arrested by H. s. Ives for
threat few weeks ago, to arrest Mr. Crawford
if he came within the borders of the State OF
New York.
On Sunday night a careless switcnman left
open blind switch the j., M. & l. road at
Sellersburg, and freight train hauled by one
of the new heavy freight engines plunged over
an embankment and was made a perfect wreck.
were several cars which followed it. The en-
gineer and fireman jumped in time to escape in
jury.
1t is quite evident that the l. & st. L. is prov
ing a valuable connection of the c., L., st. L. &
c. through the traffic agreement recently en-
tered into. In the month of August the l. q st.
l.. turned over to the c., l.. ST. l.. q c. road
three tons OF freight to one turned over to them
by the c., l.. st. l.. d G., as shown by the Of
fetal statistics
General McNulta. receiver of the Wabash
road, has issued letter to the superiEtendents
of the various departments, requesting them to
relieve from labor, as far as possible. all
ployes that were soldiers, that they may attend
the national encampment at st. Louis. He also
announces that he will furnish free transporta-
ton to all such employees
The magnitude of proposed improvements on
the Pennsylvania lines is indicated by the fact
that of the So, 900, 900 lately received from the
issue of stock the parent road 81, 300 600 is set
apart for the purchase of new engines and cars
alone. Sixty engines to be built at
once and 100 passenger coaches. Since Jan. l.
over eleven thousand freight cars have been
added to the equipment
General Passenger Agent Mccormick, of the
L., N. A. e. c. has been the subject of much
abuse in passenger circles over the charge that
he inaCgurased the cut-rato war between Indian
apolis and Chicago. One who has investigated
the matter states that the war was begun by
district passenger agent Of one of the strong
lines, and that the L., n. A & @. was really the
the third road to enter the fight.
It is stated that with the taking effect of the
fall timetable a vestib car will be put on In
place of the present through Pullman between
St Louis and New York which is hauled on
train No. 8. AT PIttsburg it will be attached to
the vestibule train from Chicago, is the vesti-
bule coach from CINCINNATI, and then hauled on
tween ST. Louis and Washington city will be
used, where the saving of three hours in time
and the extra expense of riding in one OF the
vestibule-cars is not desired.
Local work at the city freight depots of the
Decline is so heavy that all transfer of freights
at these depots has been stopped, and must be
done at the transfer depot in Brightwood. The
platform force of the Bee-line has been increased
twelve men recently, and now they are obliged
to work overtime The Bee-line people are
seriously considering the erection of another
city freight depot largely has their local bus
mess increased. each year showing a large i'm
provement the preceding When
built of the officers says. it will be located
probably between the present two city freight
depots.
An official of the L., N. A. & road, in speaking
extensions
sideration. said that their purpose was TO extend
their lines in the next eighteen mon tbs some
seventy-eight miles. One of the extensions pro-
posed is from inbridge to Brazil, where the
Clay county coal mines are reached, and thence
to Terre Haute, where connection would be
made with the Evansville & Terre Haute road.
This extension would be forty nine miles in
length. Another extension, some thirty miles
beyond French Lick Springs, is seriously con-
tempateG. He said there was but little doubt
to the first extension mentioned being built.
vania Company want the earth and will leave
stone unturned to secure the lions share of
business. it is opportune to say that in hauling
the material for the new Union railway station
they have not yet handled pound Of 1t. The
immense tonnage of iron work which is to 60
into the sheds. and every pound of which is
Pittsburg e. Western the N. Y. P. & o. and
the Bee-line. The brown store and brick are
shipped in here from Ohio over the l., Il. d W.,
and the more common stone for foundation walls
has been shipped into indianapolis over the C..
l.. ST. l.. & c. road, and the stone from northern
Ohio over the Lake Erie 81 Western.
AS the delay in recognizing the l., B. & W.
road is causing some sharp and unfavorable
criticism, the purchasing committee have issued
this circular explanation: 1.-The requisites
are the organization of separate companies in
each of the three States through which the road
passes, their subsequent consolidation and
merging with the c., 5. & G. companies This
requires much delay. on account OF the publica-
ton of legal notices that the purchasing COM
mittee has decided to avoid any possibility OF
questioning the legality of their action. and will
therefore take safe The business is
proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily as posi-
BILE, but the committee cannot hope to have it
completed before Jan. ], 1888 Meanwhile the
business of the company is showing steady
improvement"
General and Miscellaneous
Cars are SO scarce with the Pennsylvania road
that the production of coke has been curtailed
until the famine is over.
The A. T. & S. F. has opened it's extension
from Riverside to Santa Anna, and from Los
Angeles to Port Ballona for both passenger and
freight traffic.